If you remember reading ‘Half-Blood Prince‘ of ‘Harry Potter,’ you know Draco Malfoy goes through one of the darkest and most emotional chapters of his life. But one storyline the movies completely removed changes how fans understand what Draco was really going through.
It’s the storyline that shows his fear, his guilt, and his slow shift away from everything he was raised to believe. And the remake needs it back, because without it, we miss one of the most surprising friendships Draco ever formed.
Draco’s Secret Struggle Behind The ‘Harry Potter’ Story We Know
In Half-Blood Prince, Draco starts the school year thinking he finally has a big, grown-up role. Voldemort gives him the job of letting Death Eaters into Hogwarts and killing Dumbledore. Draco takes this as proof that he matters. But he doesn’t know this mission is really Voldemort’s way of punishing Lucius. Slowly, the weight of that truth crushes him.
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Draco becomes pale, shaky, and scared. He can’t handle the idea of killing someone, and he realizes real violence is very different from the arrogant comments he made back in Chamber of Secrets. The pressure feels too big for him, and he can’t talk to anyone in his house. That’s when he starts slipping away to lonely corners of Hogwarts, hoping no one sees him fall apart.
Draco And Moaning Myrtle’s Unlikely Bond
In the missing storyline, Draco becomes close to Moaning Myrtle. In the book, Draco cries in Myrtle’s bathroom several times. Myrtle tells Harry and Ron during the bathroom duel that she thought the boy liked her and that if they left, he might come back. She says they had things in common and felt sure he understood her. When Ron jokes about an S-bend, she snaps back that the boy was actually sensitive, lonely, bullied, and not afraid to cry in front of her.
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Harry asks if she means a young boy has been crying there, but Myrtle refuses to name him. She says he shared secrets she promised never to repeat. Later, we find out that the boy was Draco. He told Myrtle about Voldemort’s mission and how scared he was of failing. And here’s the twist only book fans know: Myrtle was a Muggle-born, Voldemort’s very first victim.
So Draco Malfoy, the boy who once cheered for Muggle-borns dying, ends up confiding in one, which shows real change, real fear, and real doubt inside him. Now, HBO has the chance to fix what the movies cut. Draco and Myrtle’s bond makes his entire sixth-year storyline stronger and more emotional. With it, everything makes sense: the fear, the stress, the crying, the pressure he tries and fails to hide.
This moment also shows the start of Draco questioning the beliefs he grew up with at Malfoy Manor. According to Wizarding World, Draco later lets go of pure-blood ideas as an adult. His talks with Myrtle are one of the earliest signs of that change. A TV remake has enough time to show Draco’s painful moments and the unexpected comfort he finds in Myrtle. This is the depth fans have been waiting to see on-screen. Adding this forgotten storyline would make Draco’s arc in Half-Blood Prince far more human.
